by Jean Henry Mead It’s hard to believe that it’s been 35 years since newspaper heiress Patty Hearst was kidnapped from her Berkeley, Califo...

By Beth Terrell I just bought a fascinating little book called Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak . Written by "Writers Famous a...

By Mark W. Danielson It’s been a while since I’ ve written about writing, so today I’ll introduce my method that I call “speed writing”. O...

By Chester Campbell First you sit down with a pencil and a piece of paper. A pencil? In this day of PCs and laptops and Alphasmarts? A penci...

by Ben Small Part and parcel of a good story is the location chosen. I especially enjoy mysteries set in locations that offer historical, cu...

Blazing sunlight today. I saw my shadow, just like a groundhog emerging from his burrow. I’ve been icebound for a week. Hadn’t been to the m...

by Jean Henry Mead White collar crime is on the rise and made easier through the internet. Few people are now taken in by Nigerian email pro...